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ill growing catalpa trees except the last t\^■o or three years. 

 You can cultivate and grow potatoes or corn between the 

 rows, too, if you desire, i think every one should have the 

 common fruit briars, strawberries, grapes, blackberries, and 

 raspberries, for it is surprising how quick the strawberries 

 and raspberries will get to bearing fruit and how quick a man 

 begins to get returns. Of course if he plants to peaches it 

 takes a longer time, but these I have mentioned are the kinds 

 of fruits the average farmer would want on his land, and re- 

 sult in getting his boys to help on the place. If I was a hired 

 man I would want to Avork on a farm that had fruit on it and 

 not on a place where they had only a few scarecrows on the 

 place. If that is all, I thank you for your kind attention. 



President Green: Are there any further questions that 

 you want to ask Mr. Dalby? If there is anything you think 

 of later you can put your questions in the question box and 

 they will be taken care of. We have with us Professor J. C. 

 Whitten, of Columbia, Missouri, who will speak to us on the 

 subject of "Recent Advancement in Horticulture." 



RECENT ADVANCEMENT IN HORTICULTURE 



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PROF. .T. C. WHITTEN, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I don't know whether the Nebraska State Horticultural 

 Society has a picture in their minds of hearing something 

 this morning that will be particularly new or startling in 

 horticulture. I shall not expect to give you anything that is 

 especially new with regard to horticulture. I want to quote 

 Mr. Dalby, who has just addressed you, in that respect. Onr 

 advancement in horticulture did not come by leaps and 

 bounds; it is a thing which has had a general progress or 

 growth. It has been said that "There is nothing new under 

 the sun." If I could tell you something about the oldest 

 phases of horticulture that is the best I can expect to do. 



